Bonn --
The hope of his parents, his relatives and friends flared up recently. But in vain. The Bonn Kai Buchholz (33), since 2007, while working for the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti has come during the devastating earthquake in the poor country dead.
Buchholz was assistant to the Brazilian Luiz Carlos da Costa, the deputy heads of mission. The Christopher Hotel in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, the UN was also a whole floor for its headquarters. When the quake with the starch 7.0, the hotel was particularly affected. Whole sections of the building collapsed. A picture of horror.
Already at the beginning of the salvage operation has been found dead since Costa. From there began a period of trembling and of hope for the Bonner family and friends of Kai Buchholz.
On 13 Earthquake of January, the girlfriend of the missing person sacrifice is the Internet. "My friend has not yet been found. He was at the time of the earthquake, probably in the UN mission. Please register if you know anything about his whereabouts, "was the text.
Reply with helpful references did not exist, by Kai Buchholz was no trace. Three days later, a friend tried it again with a Post on the web. "Does anyone know anything about the German UN worker Kai Buchholz?" Because it was called. But even in this there was no feedback. Since Thursday, the family now has the sad fact that the 33-year-old did not survive a severe earthquake.
"We have hoped to the last," says Dr. Jochen Buchholz, director of the Adult Education Center Bad Godesberg, and the father of Kai. "The bodyguard of da Costa, had survived the disaster, so we have hoped."
As late as last spring, parents had their son, who showed his heart since his childhood, a heart for the poorer countries of the world, visited Haiti.
"We will bury Kai at home in Beuel," said the grieving father, Dr. Jochen Buchholz.
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